i would never say the list is awful, since it's your opinion. i will say, however, that i strongly disagree. no twilight zone, the honeymooners, all in the family, the odd couple, i love lucy, to name a few. maybe i'm just old...

Any list upon which Buffy is 2nd (...anything. You and I know that it wasn't the best or worst show by any means, just another mediocre show that gets attention because it's less horrible than its contemporaries), Heroes lands before Arrested Development, and there are 30 spaces in front of Deadwood I can only assume is completely random - titles chosen from a hat or the like - is anyone's opinion really this far off the mark?

I wouldn't place The Simpsons THAT high. The past 15 to 20 seasons have all really been a steady decline downhill, the show's 'embarrassing' to watch now, the quality has become pure trash. Simpsons started as an animated sitcom, in the end, grubby network execs turned it into what it was adamantly opposed to being right from the start... a 'cartoon'.

I agree with your comment about Alias though, first two seasons are catchy, then it lags, then it becomes a total mindscrew in the end.

I was never a big fan of The West Wing, I caught snippets of it as a kid and thought it was insufferably dull. Besides, this is HARDLY what really goes on behind closed doors to the Oval Office and it's sectors. For me, it was X-Files all the way. It was the first television series in human history to completely 'flip the script' with regards to how tv had previously treated the subject of paranormal survivors. Up until then, by network policy I assume, every show on the tv airwaves (Night Court being one example that immediately springs to mind) either treated the subject of alien abduction as either a) a moronic joke, or b) a case of mental psychosis. X-Files was the middle finger to rise against that as it was the first show in collective history to make everybody else look insane. The show fueled fire to my inquisitive nature as a child as suddenly, in the midst of an otherwise depressing decade, life suddenly seemed limitless and fantastical...